Tools Blog opened!
February 19th, 2010 by Mr.Mouse
Well, after much delay, we finally have a game tools blog, linked to our forum! If you have a registered account you can also post at the blog. The purpose of this blog is to have a single place where all of our tools can be stored and easily found back. Be it custom-made tools by request of someone at the forum, or tools that you found on the internet, post it here so everyone can find it and use it! Make sure however that you provide the standardized information you can read in this post. Click on “Read the rest of this entry”
First of all, please note that abuse of the rights to post here will terminate your account. Abuse can be all kinds of disrespect to our policy, including uploading porn and warez or discriminating and jerkish behaviour. Do no violate our trust.
Fine, now we’ve got that out of our way, software that you upload and post about should have accurate information detailed in the post. Here”s an example of information that should be there:
The items in bold should be there at the minimum. Of course you are free to talk about the tool freely in the post, as long as you give a brief overview in the main visible part of the post (you use the “More”tag (click on the icon when editing a post, or press ALT+SHIFT+T, to separate the larger description from the brief one).
SCREENSHOT = Please add at least one screenshot to the news post is possible.
NAME = SFFExtract
CATEGORY = Game Resource Archive Extractor
GAMES SUPPORTED = M.U.G.E.N.
FILE FORMATS = .sff
AUTHOR = Crypton
PLATFORM = PC
DESCRIPTION =
Tool that simply unpacks .sff file (M.U.G.E.N Sprite) into .pcx files into folder.
VERSION = 0.1
FILESIZE = 30 KB
DOWNLOAD = http://www.sendspace.com/file/38nufk
SYSTEM = Windows
LICENSE = GPL v3
OPENSOURCE = Yes
LANGUAGE = English
RELEASED = 29.12.2009
Right, I’ll post a few examples as well and add a help page. This WordPress system is quite easy to get to grips with. You can upload pictures, sounds, zip files, heck even exe files and attach them to your post. Check the Media library for that. Finally, you should attach the appropriate tag to the post and category. I’ve created a few, make sure that whenever you add something for a new game, you create a new tag for it. Does the tag already exist? Then use that one instead.